http://mla2013.thatcamp.org The Humanities and Technology Camp at the Modern Language Association Convention in Boston, January 2013 Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:02:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 http://mla2013.thatcamp.org/#comment-101 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:26:18 +0000 http://mla2013.thatcamp.org/?page_id=34#comment-101 Reading, in the traditional sense, is dealing with something (a meaning?) hidden and condensed in lines of characters written on a page. This can be unlocked by the imagination of the reader in a kind of “telepathy” (Sartre) or “allucination”(Kittler). What is changed with computer? Can digital tools read? or at least help in unlocking that kind of experience? These are some of the question I am intrigued by and I would like to discuss at thatcamp.
Speaking of reading I am also asking myself what will happen with digital tools in cultures where reading was much less important, or non-existent at all, such as African societies. What kind of use they will make of the digital?

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